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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1995, Volume 29, Number 2 John Hartford keeps heading into the future by delving way back into the past. It’s not that Hartford stays lost in thoughts of by gone days; his busy career includes the recent release “The Walls We Bounce Off Of” on his Small Dog label,…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1973, Volume 7, Number 11 The sprawling, desolate Texas plains have never been the spawning ground of bluegrass talent that the Appalachians have. Involved for years with its own gift of genius to American music—Western Swing—Texas has made bluegrass music fight hard for a toehold out there, even today….

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1979, Volume 13, Number 8 It was spring in the Appalachian mountains. The sun was bright and the air was cool. White dogwood trees were in bloom throughout Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Mountain laurel covered the ground. The foliage was so breath-taking it was hard to imagine that it…

By Doc Hamilton and Dick Spottswood Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1978, Volume 12, Number 8 It is with a great deal of sorrow that we note the passing of Paul Warren in the early morning hours of January 12th at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Paul had been a patient in the hospital…

Hartford is 24 Years Gone, Yet His Music and Personality Still Influences New Generations I got to know John Hartford a little bit through the sheer luck of geography.  As a native of Huntington, West Virginia, located on the banks of the mighty Ohio River, my family would eventually move to Cincinnati when I was…

Q – I have a question for you about Don Reno’s two cousins “Chuck” and “Jay” Haney. Are they still living? If not, any idea when they passed away? Apparently, there’s not much mentioned about them in bluegrass, at least not that I’m aware of . . . besides being on the early recordings of…